1 Introduction

Caveat: This document is really two different documents in one. Much of the expository text (rationale, extended descriptions) belongs in an overview, background, or introductory document. The more concise ``man pages'' belong in an API reference manual. And, of course, a tutorial is needed. Lacking a tutorial, we suspect the best thing for new users to do is to scan this introductory chapter and then look over and play with some of the small example programs, outlined below in section 1.6.1. Feedback appreciated, and bear with us.

• 1.1 Goals and Scope
• 1.2 Road Map
  • 1.2.1 Interfaces
  • 1.2.2 Function Libraries
  • 1.2.3 Component Libraries
• 1.3 Overall Design Principles
• 1.4 Configuring the OSKit
• 1.5 Building the OSKit
• 1.6 Using the OSKit
  • 1.6.1 Example Kernels
  • 1.6.2 Booting Kernels
  • 1.6.3 Command line arguments